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which are therefore not to be shortened. Twenty 

 or twenty-five feet should be allowed them, and a 

 new planted tree is to be headed down as directed 

 for pears, &c. Train regularly as many shoots as 

 may be in summer, and at wjnter pruning, lay them. 

 about six or seven inches distance. A succession 

 of new wood must be always coming forward, and 

 pf course some old taken out, for the fruit is pro- 

 duced chiefly on year and two-year old wood ; and 

 as it comes on spurs, and also small shoots of the 

 same year, the leaving short stubs (of mpderate 

 wood) in pruning, seems justified, though by some 



condemned. 



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Cherries should be found agaipst walls in every 

 good garden ; but plant young trees, not more than, 

 two, but better if one year only from building. 



A new planted cherry tree is best to have but one 

 strong shoot from the bud, and then cut dpwn at 

 spring, so as to have two or three eyes on each side, 

 to lay in kindly to the wall ; but if the tree be older 

 and fuller of wood, head it down as will be directed 

 presently, in the article, Espalier Pruning. 



Cherry trees should be trained at length, four or 

 five inches asunder. The fruit comes from spurs all 

 along the shoots, on one and two years old wood, 

 which will continue to bear. In pruning have an 

 aye, however, to some fair shoots for successors to 

 thosd that are getting diseased, or worn put. Some 

 cut all superfluous shoots clean away, arid others 

 leave a sprinkling of short stubs, which may be a! T 

 lowed ; but let them not advance far foreright. 



The moreUa cherry has a different mode of bear- 

 ing from others, the fruit proceeding mostly from 

 ejes along the branches of new, or year old wood ; 

 the pruner, therefore, is to lay in a proper supply of 

 young wood every vear, always removing older wood 

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